Life Quotes

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life itself is neither good nor evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.

Jeremy Taylo

Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.

Bill Vaughan

While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead?... While you do not know life, how can you know about death?

Confucius, The Confucian Analects, bk. 11: 11

And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

Shakespeare

One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The aim of education must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, can see in the service to the community their highest life achievement.

Albert Einstein

Life without the courage for death is slavery.

Seneca

One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.

Hugh Prathe

Rumor is not always wrong. - From Life of Agricola.

Publius Cornelius Tacitus

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - - My youth.

Sara Teasdale

All life is an experiment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.

Michael Johnson

When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break.

Akhenaton

The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

James Truslow Adams

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.

Frank Lloyd Wright

What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.

Unknown

Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.

William Feathe

There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - To do nothing at all.

Sydney Smith

A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.

Cicero

You can get everything in life you want if you help enough other people get what they want.

Zig Ziglar, See you at the Top

Language study is a route to maturity. Indeed, in language study as in life, if a person is the same today as he was yesterday, it would be an act of mercy to pronounce him dead and to place him in a coffin, rather than in a classroom.

John A. Rassias

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Jean - Paul Sartre

Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war.

Martin Luther King Jr., The Christmas Sermon On Peace in on Dec 24, 1967

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Sri da Avabhas

Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

George Santayana

Must be out - Of - Doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.

Henry David Thoreau

One path alone leads to a life of peace The path of virtue.

Juvenal

The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.

James Taylo

If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.

Swami Sivanada

As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Zarya, 1994

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. Quoting Churchill.

Ronald Reagan

Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.

Confucius, Analects, XIV. 12

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein, "Job", 1984